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Category: Art
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The Mad Pipe Organist
So this is not my usual style.. oh, who am I kidding. I don’t have a ‘usual style’ it’s whatever catches my attention long enough to noodle around until I create something that amuses me. In this case, using Mandelbulb 3D for the ‘pipe organ’ and then adding an organist with keyboard in Photoshop. It’s…
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Repost: Who Murdered Beauty?
This was originally published at According to Hoyt in June 2014. We meet today, my friends, to attempt to solve a crime. A crime against all of humanity, one which is extinguishing the life from Art, Philosophy, and even Ethics. Unlike with a human life, the existence may yet be restored to Beauty, but it…
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Robot Spiders in a Watercolor Garden
Artwork from the last week or so. Mixed bag of traditional and digital!
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Ars Longa
Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, indicium difficile Art is long, life short, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgement difficult This is the first part of a series of essays I’ve long wanted to write, but it wasn’t until I saw the full of the quote I knew best as ‘ars longa, vita brevis’…
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Anatomical Art
Some strange and wonderful artwork has been made in years gone by. Sadly, much of this has since been destroyed, as being ‘too morbid.’ We wipe out the past behind us, like a branch across our footprints in the dust. But it doesn’t change that we were there, or what we learned along our journey.…
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Refueling
I stopped and put gas in my vehicle’s tank this morning. As I stood there watching the numbers tick upward, I was thinking about many things – cosmetic defects on my beloved beater car, learning new skills, and the need for my mind and body to take time to refuel, and not just with the…
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Visual Story Prompts
I occasionally post an image of my artwork on facebook, and people surprise me with the ideas they pull out of the art. So this is a place where you could come, look, and possibly find the spark of a tale. All of these pieces were created using Mandelbulb 3D version 1.8, with…
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Checking In
I’ve had a lovely week off between contracts, and today it’s back to work. I don’t know what to expect – I don’t even know my hours, yet! But I am trying to get the blog onto something approaching a schedule, again. I’d meant to do so much – including prepping blog posts – this…
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Cover Reveal!
I’ve been hard at work on the cover for the Tanager’s Fledglings, and I’m finally getting excited for this book. I’ve got three cover versions, below, that are similar. Now, I just have to pick one…
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And Then, Art
Quiet day today, taking care of household minutiae. And in the interstices, learning a new art program. I’ve been working with Apophysis for more than a year, creative fractal flames that are amazingly diverse, from organic, abstract, to highly geometric and organized. I’ve had Mandelbulb for just as long. The problem has been one that…
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Garden Battle
So I was inspired by a giant slug… Sometimes I think it would be fun to create an illustrate a children’s book. And then I come back to my sanity. It’s not the art. It’s the story! I don’t know that I could tell that level of story. But thank you, John, for the…
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Confidence and Creativity
The First Reader was teasing me the other day. He pointed out that he knows exactly what’s coming. I’ll finish this book (this week, really. I could wrap it in a day but I don’t think that’s happening today) and I will tell him that it sucks. I can’t deny it. it’s not just that…